Our Company Values: The Foundation of Our Success
Our company values were shaped early in our journey, and derived from collaborative workshops with team members across the organisation. These sessions captured the essence of who we are and who we aspire to be, ensuring that our values reflect the collective voice of the entire team.
The result is a set of core principles that guide us: Authentic Communication, Creative Exploration, Dedication to Excellence, Healthy Humility, Purposeful Teamwork, and Warmth.
These values aren’t just words on paper— they are embedded in everything we do. From recruitment to performance reviews, they are a key lens through which we assess potential and recognise achievement.
Our commitment to these values also plays a vital role in maintaining high performance, collaboration, and innovation, fueling our growth as a company.
As we grow and evolve, so will our values. We believe in continually refining them, staying open to feedback, and adjusting as new challenges and opportunities arise.
Authentic Communication
We value data, information sharing, and careful, considerate listening. We like respectful debate, and debate is healthy. Disagreement is healthy. We are all different and should celebrate our different ideas. We can only do that if we debate together.
We care about understanding new things quickly. This means being present, real and authentic with the truth, often, and sharing feedback ‘in the moment’. Not dwelling on thoughts and coming back to them days or weeks later.
A good, active communicator listens well uses their listening skills to demonstrate their appropriate humility. This is key in particular for line managers who are expected to make sure employees get regular and timely feedback on performance.
Creative exploration
We are ingenious, engaged, curious and learn with passion, and help others around us learn. We are excited about exploring and appreciate the diversity of ideas that helps us explore with breadth and depth.
We are both pragmatic and also not scared to try new things. brave
We care about deep thinking, and specialisation within disciplines and we are passionate about mastery. By pursuing our own mastery of our subjects, we enable the whole business to exceed.
Dedication to excellence
We take accurate, purposeful and precise action that ultimately delivers brilliance in any area we apply ourselves, from science and technology to HR, finance and marketing. We value the quality of work that we do.
We do deliberate, excellent work towards our goal, with passion and drive. We take actions that are deeply thought through. We know that all of us working with [dedication / determined resolve] moves us towards our long-term goal.
We value consistency and clarity in direction, particularly in our long-term goal setting. Each of our own ambitions towards our long-term goal provides positivity and inspiration to those around us.
We take pride in what we create and what we deliver to our colleagues, partners and customers.
Healthy humility
We are all here to work together. Every person is equal and makes a meaningful contribution. We have a BIG collective ambition and act with collective confidence about achieving our collective goals. We balance this with remaining individually humble and grounded.
We appreciate considerate listeners and we value authentic communication (another core value).
This is not false modesty, it must be genuine.
Purposeful teamwork
The work we do is shaped by our collaborative discussions about HOW we get our work done
We work in non-competitive teams
We collaborate openly to solve hard problems because we know that what we can do together is more than we can achieve alone.
We consult, we update, we integrate independent work
We keep others informed of progress and changing expectations. We know they depend on us as we depend on them.
Someone excels in this value by
- leaning on team members to help solve problems. Having a good team around you means you can be away on holiday, and not be stressed about what’s happening without you
- gaining the trust of others
- engaging in useful, healthy conflict
- demonstrating their accountability, and ability to hold others to accounts
- focussing on results
Warmth
We care deeply about providing a caring, supportive environment and we place tremendous value on the fantastic diversity of backgrounds that we embrace in our workplace.
We know that by providing a warm and safe environment people will thrive and do their best work in a place where they have a sense of belonging.
We are exciting, social, energetic, and have fun doing what we do and the people we do it with. We enjoy laughter and social interactions.
